Call
(v. t.) To command or request to come or be present |
Call
(v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty |
Call
(v. t.) To invite or command to meet |
Call
(v. t.) To give name to |
Call
(v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind |
Call
(v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely |
Call
(v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
Call
(v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice |
Call
(v. t.) To invoke |
Call
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep |
Call
(v. i.) To speak in loud voice |
Call
(v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
Call
(v. i.) To make a brief visit |
Call
(n.) The act of calling |
Call
(n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
Call
(n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
Call
(n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case |
Call
(n.) A divine vocation or summons. |
Call
(n.) Vocation |
Call
(n.) A short visit |
Call
(n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
Call
(n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
Call
(n.) The cry of a bird |
Call
(n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. |
Call
(n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
Call
(n.) See Assessment, 4. |
Charge
(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden |
Charge
(v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust |
Charge
(v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. |
Charge
(v. t.) To fix or demand as a price |
Charge
(v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt |
Charge
(v. t.) To impute or ascribe |
Charge
(v. t.) To accuse |
Charge
(v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear |
Charge
(v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear |
Charge
(v. t.) To assume as a bearing |
Charge
(v. t.) To call to account |
Charge
(v. t.) To bear down upon |
Charge
(v. i.) To make an onset or rush |
Charge
(v. i.) To demand a price |
Charge
(v. i.) To debit on an account |
Charge
(v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still |
Charge
(v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. |
Charge
(v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another |
Charge
(v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place |
Charge
(v. t.) Heed |
Charge
(v. t.) Harm. |
Charge
(v. t.) An order |
Charge
(v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation |
Charge
(v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense |
close call
close shave
squeak
squeaker
narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
call option
call | the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date |
| call | (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee, he was ejected for protesting the call |
mission
charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
care charge
tutelage guardianship | attention and management implying responsibility for safety, he is in the care of a bodyguard |
| charge | an impetuous rush toward someone or something, the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary, the battle began with a cavalry charge |
banzai attack
banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
| call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
| roll call | calling out an official list of names |
| mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
| muster call | a call of the names of personnel at a military assembly |
| call | a visit in an official or professional capacity, the pastor's calls on his parishioners, the salesman's call on a customer |
| call | a brief social visit, senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers, the characters in Henry James' novels are forever paying calls on each other, usually in the parlor of some residence |
| call-back | the recall of an employee after a layoff |
| service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
| call-board | a bulletin board backstage in a theater |
call center
call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
charge
burster
bursting charge
explosive charge | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time, this cartridge has a powder charge ofgrains |
charge bearing heraldic bearing
armorial bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
| charge-exchange accelerator | an accelerator in which high-energy ions escape from plasma following charge exchange |
depth charge
depth bomb | a bomb that explodes at a preset depth under water, antisubmarine device |
Post-Office box
PO Box
POB
call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
telephone booth
phone booth
call box
telephone box
telephone kiosk | booth for using a telephone |
siren call
siren song | the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous, he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness |
conservation of charge
conservation of electricity | the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system |
| Call | a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course, he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call |
call phone call
telephone call | a telephone connection, she reported several anonymous calls, he placed a phone call to London, he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call |
| call-back | a return call |
| collect call | a telephone call that the receiving party is asked to pay for |
| call forwarding | lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct |
| call-in | a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program |
| call waiting | a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone |
| crank call | a hostile telephone call (from a crank) |
| local call | a telephone call made within a local calling area |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
| toll call | a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate |
| conference call | a telephone call in which more than two people participate |
| wake-up call | a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels), she left a wake-up call for a.m. |
blotter
day book
police blotter
rap sheet
charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
charge
complaint | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense, he was arrested on a charge of larceny |
| call | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed, Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed |
| function call | a call that passes control to a subroutine, after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program |
system call
supervisor call instruction | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisor |
| accusation charge | an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence, the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving |
birdcall
call birdsong
song | the characteristic sound produced by a bird, a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age |
| bell-like call | a birdcall that resembles the tone of a bell |
| two-note call | a birdcall having two notes, the two-note call of the cuckoo |
distress signal
distress call | an internationally recognized signal sent out by a ship or plane indicating that help is needed |
| bugle call | a signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |